to think British chocolate

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Is just crap compared to Swiss or German chocolate?

I try kitkats and twix and celebrations. They're just so crummy and un-chocolate-y compared to Lindt, Ritter Sport and other chocolates in Europe.

We're being fobbed off with rubbish chocolate.

It's never as bad as Hershey's though. That actually tastes like bile.

YABU. Try living in Australia or America. The chocolate here is disgusting!!!

I take your Cadburys made in US, and give you Cadburys made in Egypt. Foul!!!
I totally agree with Hershey's tasting of vileness and bile.
Who said Aus choc was good? I found some !alteesers the other day, ate one, and read the packet. Made in Australia. Not great.
I've discovered the "best" choc over here is branded as German. I seriously doubt it was made anywhere within Europe tho!
I long for the days of bastardised Cadburys being available easily, and without taking out a mortgage. It would be even better if we could have the UK recipie back.

I was in Mexico City recently, and was very disappointed by the chocolate there as well. I have found delicious spicy Mexican chocolate in the US, but I didn't run across any there.

What about Green and Black's? Their rich milk chocolate outclasses any more expensive brand in my opinion.

YABU.

Lindt and Suchard aren't all that, IMO; although I do like Ritter.

I'm in Australia - we have a slight variation on Cadbury's here, and it isn't to everyone's taste but I don't mind it. However, one of the "home grown" chocolatiers, Ernest Hilliard - now that's crap chocolate.

I'd take G&B milk or milk and almond over almost anything else though.

Twirls, wispas and flakes still taste like old style Cadbury chocolate. Dairy milk is now foul

Yabu...swiss chocolate is too sweet. Best chocolate is belguim end of story. I know the best place to get it in brugges away from all the tourists. Yum!!! Cadburys is just about ok at the moment. Tbh its alot better than the swiss stuff. If they change it again forget it. Don't like lindt its too sweet and has an awful after taste. Cant remember the name of the shop but everyone normally raves about their chocolate but ive always found it abit bitter. American chocolate isn't chocolate but method of torture on your taste buds. Seriously why did they even label it chocolate. But everyone has different tastes so some might like lindt or that american chocolate.

I still like Cadburys - I never liked the plain chocolate bars though, so haven't noticed much of a difference in ones with fruit and nut in. A Galaxy bar is good for a little bit at a time, too much is sickly.

Someone gave us Green and Black chocolate for Christmas. Yuck, yuck, yuck - it's been hidden away so not to offend further. Tasted like vegan chocolate (plastic and fake).

We have shop here that brings in chocolates and sweets from UK, so I saw a double decker, which I always used to quite like when lived in UK. So at a ridiculous price, I bought a few for a treat. OMG it was revolting. So bad in fact, that the dc tasted mine and didn't even eat theirs.... Yes, a chocolate that didn't get eated. I don't know which was more shocking in fact... that or the taste.

I'm in SA and we always used to think our chocolates were so awful compared to UK's. Well our bod standard Cadburys is still made the same way so is so much nicer than what you are being subjected to....

It was that terribly fatty after taste that it left in your mouth too. Horrid, just horrid.

I am quite partial to Lindt too though...

I prefer green & blacks to lindt but I only eat dark chocolate, maybe the milk chocolate isn't as nice. Morrisons own brand 85% chocolate is pretty good!

My brother loves Hersheys he brought some back from America as he thought it was nicer than any chocolate in the UK. So there are some weirdos who like it.

I got some (British) Fortum & Mason chocolates for my birthday that are heaven in a box. I think british small producers still make damn fine chocolate and luckily I only like chocolate in small doses.

Stralia here...while dairy milk is pants I love the variety of cadburys you can get (save the ludicrous marketing gimmick of the vegemite bar)

Also the Lindor and 20 squares bars. Lots of variety. That said the tin of roses we were bought for Christmas was rank.n

Yabu. Swiss Beschel Matcha chocolate is like a silk party in my mouth. Most delicious thing ever

some of the best chocolate I've tasted has been Estoniain

Snickers with hazelnuts is delicious but it's not real chocolate. Montezumas (though grossly overpriced) or the Lindt flavoure chocolates are good. Waitrose do a lovely pistachio milk chocolate which is really, really nice.

Cadburys is no where near as nice :(

I love artisan chocolate, i tend to buy a bit from New Forest Chocolate.

YANBU. Cadbury's chocolate is disgusting: it is just brown fat and sugar. American chocolate is worse.

Green and Blacks tastes like advent calendar chocolate: greasy, unsatisfying and a bit stale.

I love Milka from Lindt.

M&S does lovely chocolate. It may not be made in the UK (I've not looked) but their selection boxes are delicious.

Agree, wonky. Our current fave indy choc producer is Nomnom Chocolate from Wales. little article about the company's origins

*sorry meant YANBU!

I hate American chocolate unless it's 'See's' - that is just sublime.

You see, you get me all excited. "Oh goody" I think, "a thread that will give me some ideas about chocolate that tastes of, well, chocolate"

Then you all pfaff on about bloody Lindt, Suchard... disgusting creations that only miss out on "Shitest Chocolate Ever" because Hersheys exists!

Why oh why can't my taste buds accept the crap that is easily found? Why do my tastebuds insist I spend ages looking for nice stuff? Why can't I have the walking dustbin's my sisters tastebuds instead ? no no!

blanche have you tried Beschel?

To say British Chocolate is rubbish is generalising a bit. So Cadburys was the dogs bollox until Kraft took over, now instead of Dairy Milk covering everything like the creme eggs And Roses chocolates, you only get the "real" Cadburys taste where the Dairy Milk logo is on the wrapper. I detest Roses these days and I am very sad, same with Double Deckers, they are horrid now.

Take Kit Kat, when these were made by Rowntree they were fabulous, since Nestle took them over some years ago (a Swiss company) they have slowly deteriorated.

Terry's of York, now also owned by Kraft is also horrid here days, and the Chocolate Orange is not the same recipe as it was a few years ago either.

Thorntons went right down he hill when they sold out to Ferrero, now all their continental taste exactly the same.

The fact is BRITISH chocolate was wonderful, it was when it stopped being British that it stopped being great.

These days all the above taste like that cake chocolate my mum used to buy when we were kids to top her chocolate sponge.

Mars have yet to fuck up the Galaxy but there is time yet.

Ourblanche ok ill let you in on a secret but promise not to tell anyone else and if there are none for me left in the shop when i next visit i know who to blame. Been visiting this shop for 15 years. Go for the original shop as they make the chocolate overnight. www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g188671-d2535339-r158136658-Dumon_Chocolatier-Bruges_West_Flanders_Province.html